The old Bears might've been introducing the man who made the worst call in Super Bowl history.

Can you imagine if the Bears were introducingSeahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell as their new head coach this week?

Can you imagine if the Bears were coming off a 5-11 season punctuated with miserable offensive decisions and now trying to sell hope with a new head coach whose call at the 1-yard line just lost the Super Bowl?

Remember, Bevell was a head-coaching possibility going back to when Marc Trestman was hired. Bevell and Bruce Arians were the other finalists, so it’s not just creative writing to think the Bears might’ve needed a bigger clown car this week.

The Falcons went through some of that Monday when they introduced Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn as the new head coach. Quinn might be a good choice, but still, the optics are laughable when you’re presenting your fan base with the man whose defense just gave up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.

That, however, is nothing to compared to the scenario of the Bears bringing in Bevell, especially if Chris Ballard were the new general manager bringing him in.

Ballard worked for the Bears for many years. He would’ve been hired by the latest random McCaskey as chairman and an honorary McCaskey serving as team president. He would be continuing the Bears' tradition of over-promoting a coordinator who never has done the job at the NFL level.

Except this coordinator would’ve been the one who made the worst call in the history of the Super Bowl.

That would’ve been embarrassing, even for the Bears.

Bevell’s lousy decision at the most critical point of the most important game would’ve been picked apart in Chicago as if the Seahawks called Soldier Field home.

Why did you pass the ball? Did you realize Marshawn Lynch is on your team? Why not run the tailback who just picked up four yards? Why not call a play for the best part of your offense? Why did you call a play for the middle of a collapsed field? Why wouldn’t you run the read-option with Russell Wilson? Why not at least call a fade? Why didn’t you trust your offensive line to lunge forward for one yard? Why did you blame the receiver for not being strong enough on the ball when you’re supposed to own the blame?

Geez, Bevell might’ve taken so much enemy fire that the media might’ve forgotten to ask how he would fix Jay Cutler.

A look at the faces at Halas Hall.

No, sorry, I lied. Everybody gets asked about fixing Cutler, and I think Joel Quenneville is up next.

Point is, this week might’ve been one of the worst starts in Bears coaching history after one of the worst finishes, with bad play-calling a central theme.

The Bears suffered through a dose of it with Trestman, and that goes back to his first season when he sent out Robbie Gould for a 47-yard field goal on second down in overtime in Minnesota.

On second down, people. After Matt Forte had killed the Vikings' defense on that drive, people.

Gould missed. The Vikings would win the game. The Bears would miss the playoffs after losing to the Packers in a game that wouldn’t have mattered if Trestman had let Forte run the ball to a reasonable spot in Minnesota.

Trestman’s call isn’t as bad as one that loses a Super Bowl, but that call is believed to be the point when Trestman began to lose credibility in the Bears' locker room.

Coming out of the Trestman disaster, the Bears needed a spasm of credibility themselves. Naming Bevell would not have been that spasm of credibility.

It might’ve looked worse than the debacle involving Dave McGinnis, who was coach for a couple of hours but didn’t know it, and then quit the process because Michael McCaskey changed the team’s voicemail to make an announcement to which McGinnis never agreed.

The upside of that episode is Virginia McCaskey would send her son to his room.

The upside of this episode is that Ryan Pace, who had no ties to the Bears, hired John Fox, who also had no ties to the Bears, a marriage brokered by consultant Ernie Accorsi, the most un-Bears-like hire in history.

It sounds funny to say the Bears should be happy to welcome a coach who went out of the playoffs by losing a home game after a bye week instead of a coach who coordinated a Super Bowl-winning offense and nearly did it back-to-back.

But I like the Bears’ start with Fox. I like their future with him. I certainly like it better than hearing whatever Bevell might’ve said at Halas Hall this week.

The grown-up Bears have a grown-up head coach with grown-up NFL head-coaching experience. They have a coaching staff of people who have experience in the positions they’re filling. They have a coaching staff more capable of getting it right than they’ve ever had in the Super Bowl era.